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Passes C:\ based temp file location on a Ubuntu system

See original GitHub issue

When I launch my external editor (gvim), I get this error:

Selection_524

Which is a problem, since I’m on a Ubuntu 18.04 system. (Parallel was the subject of the email).

This seems to happen when I have a Thunderbird compose window without the main program running (ie. a /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird -compose process).

Happy to help debug.

Thunderbird 68.8.0

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Created 3 years ago
Comments:6 (1 by maintainers)

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reaglecommented, Jun 17, 2020

It’s been painful not being able to use my text editor for the past week. Any ideas of what to do?

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reaglecommented, Jun 29, 2020

I don’t know TB extensions or javascript, but since I’m on a Mac I did the following simple hack in exteditor.js, rezipped the files into an xpi file and it seems to work for me.

    function tmpDir() {
        // var tmpdir;
        // try {
        //     tmpdir = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/file/directory_service;1"].
        //         createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIProperties).
        //         get("TmpD", Components.interfaces.nsIFile).target;
        // } catch (e) {
        //     tmpdir = (osType == 'unix') ? "/tmp" : "C:\\Temp";
        // }
        // return tmpdir;
        return "/tmp";
    }